HawkesTopic: A Joint Model for Network Inference and Topic Modeling from Text-Based Cascades Xinran He1 XINRANHE@USC.EDU Theodoros Rekatsinas2 THODREK@CS.UMD.EDU James Foulds3 JFOULDS@UCSC.EDU Lise Getoor3 GETOOR@SOE.UCSC.EDU Yan Liu1 YANLIU.CS@USC.EDU 1 University of Southern California, 2 University of Maryland, College Park, 3 University of California, Santa Cruz Abstract Understanding the diff